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8 Aug 2021: This medal was awarded to Sergeant-Major H. Kingshott, of the Waggon Train. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Awarded the medal for this campaign was Private J. Andrews of the 11th Light Dragoons, whose medal this is. ... Lester Watson purchased it from the dealer Gifford at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This medal was awarded to Sergeant Hagar Norwood of the 40th Regiment. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: French troops who survived combat in the Dardanelles, in which French forces took nearly as many casualties as the Australians, were in 1926 awarded this medal. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Possibly therefore this medal was at some point in its history retooled with the bar bearing the famous name of Mafeking to increase its value, although in fact Farrell's original ... Lester Watson purchased the medal as it is at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This medal was awarded to Private G. Palmer of the 1st Battalion, Cameron Highlanders. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: The Company, given a royal charter in 1889, recruited its own forces and from 1890 onwards significant engagements resulted in the award of this medal to those troops. ... Lester Watson purchased this one at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: The battle of Peiwar Kotal, for which Lance Corporal W. Fitzgerald was awarded one of the bars to this medal, was one of the two actions which led to Shere Ali ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This medal was awarded to Sergeant James Beck of the 41st Regiment. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This medal was awarded for participation in both the battle of Ahmed Khel and the final taking of Kandahar, meaning that the recipient, Bugler R. ... Lester Watson purchased this medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This medal was awarded to Private A. McDowell of the Coldstream Guards. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This medal was awarded to Petty Officer J. Quill, who served aboard the 2nd-class cruiser HMS Thetis off the coast of Natal during the fighting. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: As a result it is not known to whom this medal was issued. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This medal was awarded to Private D. Bryce of the 2nd West India Regiment. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This medal was awarded to Sepoy Samandar Khan of the 24th Bombay Infantry. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This medal was awarded to Battery Quartermaster Sergeant J. Christie of the Royal Field Artillery. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This medal was awarded to Sergeant Thomas Hughes of the 9th Regiment. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: One of these men was Havildar Maun Singh, and this is his medal. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: year. This medal was awarded to Private Mohomadu Imbria of the 2nd North Nigerian Regiment. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This medal was awarded to Private M. Fitzpatrick of the 55th Regiment. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: From 1910 the medal bore a portrait of King George V by Richard Garbe, and it is one of this issue that belongs to the Watson Collection. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This medal was awarded to Private Robert McCullough of the 3rd Foot, for participation in this difficult mountain campaign. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: The state was soon after annexed to British India. This medal was awarded to Private F. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Keane of the 32nd Light Infantry, to whom this medal was awarded late in 1858. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This medal is however inscribed to Able Bodied Seaman George Eyres of the 74-gun first-rate HMS Leviathan. ... Be that as it may, Lester Watson purchased this medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Precise dating of this medal is difficult, beyond the fact that it is an issue of Victoria's reign, but as the recipient, Corporal W. ... It was purchased by Lester Watson at some point before 1928, and had previously been part of the Payne Collection.

8 Aug 2021: Nonetheless, the victory was commemorated by a bar, and this medal, awarded to William Gladstone, who was Surgeon's Mate aboard HMS Sans Pareil during the battle, bears it. ... The award of this bar to him has been verified. Lester Watson purchased the

8 Aug 2021: This medal was awarded to Private P. McHugh of the 66th Foot. ... Lester Watson purchased this medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Some of the British forces involved in this campaign were awarded this medal by the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Mejid in 1843; in 1848 many also received the Naval General Service Medal ... Lester Watson purchased this medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: His presence on the ship at this time has been verified, and the General Honours Roll confirms the award of the medal to him. ... Lester Watson purchased this medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: indicates that this medal was awarded, to Sergeant Frederick Carthy of the Royal New Zealand Artillery. ... Lester Watson purchased his medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This medal was awarded to Private F. Horton of the 1st Battalion, Scottish Borderers. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This medal was however awarded to Thomas Rowlands, who was verifiably a Ship's Boy on the Endymion at the time. ... Lester Watson purchased this medal at some point before 1928; it had previously formed part of the Whalley Collection.

8 Aug 2021: This medal was awarded to Able Bodied Seaman Simon Redgrave of the 24-gun frigate HMS Magicienne, which took no actual part in the battle. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: For fighting at Lucknow during the second relief effort and subsequent evacuation, or in the city's recapture the next year, this bar was awarded to the Indian Mutiny Medal. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: A party whose task was to delineate the frontier with Afghanistan had been attacked and embroiled in a fierce battle at its camp; this merited the kind of punishment that these ... Savage of the 2nd Border Regiment, whose medal this is. Lester Watson

8 Aug 2021: This medal was awarded to Able Bodied Seaman T. Simpkin, whose vessel, HMS Spiteful, despite only being a paddle-steamer single-handedly quelled piracy in the Arabian Gulf during the campaign, ... Simpkin was presumably part of this effort, and Lester

8 Aug 2021: Since this medal was at some point in the hands of a workshop--it has at some point in its history been mounted as a brooch--it is very possible that ... Nonetheless, Lester Watson purchased this medal from the dealer Gifford at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This medal was awarded to Private John Halpin, of the contingent of Royal Marines serving aboard HMS Donegal, a 74-gun first-rate which had previously been the French ship Hoche. ... Lester Watson purchased this medal at some point before 1928; it had

8 Aug 2021: For the initial occupation operations, however, and for the expedition into North-West Persia of later 1920, the bars that adorn this medal were awarded. ... Lester Watson purchased the medal from the London dealers Baldwin at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: The bars to this medal indicate that its recipient, Private William Baxendale of the 1st Battalion, 8th Regiment, was part of the forces that besieged and captured Mughal Delhi and then ... Lester Watson purchased his medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Not all the conflicts for which the New Zealand Medal was awarded were of this kind, however, some rather being wars between Maori tribes in which one side had managed to ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: His presence on the ship at this time has been verified, and the Medals Roll confirms the award of this medal to a man of this name. ... Lester Watson purchased this medal at some point before 1928; it had previously come up for sale in an auction at

8 Aug 2021: This was the Battle of the Gut of Gibraltar. This medal was awarded to Private Amos Horton, of the Royal Marines contingent aboard the 74-gun third-rate frigate HMS Audacious, ... Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: Meares's presence on the ship during this time has been verified, and the Medals Roll confirms the award of this medal to him. ... Lester Watson purchased this medal from the London dealer Spink at some point before 1928.

8 Aug 2021: This medal is inscribed to James Smith. While such a man did serve in Horatio at this time, the Medals Roll does not confirm the award of a medal to him, ... Be this as it may, Lester Watson purchased this medal from the dealer Gifford at some point

8 Aug 2021: One recipient of it was Private Patrick MacDonald of the 3rd Bombay European Regiment, whose medal this is. ... Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.